DISS 2015: Choral Celebration

Nigel Perrin: conductor
Florian Mitrea: piano

Chamber Choir
Big Choir
Dartington Festival Orchestra

Friday 21 August, 7.45pm Great Hall
£18.50 reserved / £14 unreserved / Under 16s £9.25 reserved / £7 unreserved

A substantial and satisfying programme to end the week. Eric Whitacre is an immensely popular and melodic composer, paired here with James MacMillan’s intensely beautiful Lux Aeterna. The young prize-winning pianist Florian Mitrea plays the sunniest and most tender of all of Mozart’s piano concertos, K.488, and we finish with the dramatically exciting Requiem, sung by our very own Big Choir.

Nigel Perrin is an inspirational choral director and teacher, directing the City of Bath Bach Choir, Exeter Festival Chorus, Wells Cathedral School Chamber Choir, and Bath Camerata. He was a founding member of the King’s Singers, and has been described as ‘infectiously upbeat,’ ‘vibrant and energetic,’ and ‘a cross between Mick Jagger and Harry Christophers’!

James MacMillan Lux Aeterna
Eric Whitacre Her Sacred Spirit Soars
Mozart Piano Concerto No.23 in A major K488
Mozart Requiem in D minor K.626

Part of the Dartington International Summer School concert and event programme.

For more information visit http://www.dartington.org/whats-on/event/?id=88208